Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-25 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 25 July 2011 07:18, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > > Thomas Zander wrote: > >>On Monday 25 July 2011 07.49.17 Scott Kitterman wrote: >>> I haven't seen anything in any mailing list posts that is nearly as >>> aggressive  as knowningly reusing a name that was in use like >>> systemsettings. >> >>Pl

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings"

2011-07-25 Thread Ambroz Bizjak
Hi Mark, The localization stuff you're concerned about is happening below the desktop file layer (in KDE's case, kconfigdata.h), and should work automatically, i.e. if you ask for some key it will automatically give you a localized version if available. Also, DE-specific desktop file keys would be

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-25 Thread Alvaro Soliverez
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Ryan Rix wrote: > On Mon 25 July 2011 06:53:28 Alvaro Soliverez wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 1:36 AM, Martin Gräßlin wrote: >> > On Monday 25 July 2011 15:57:16 Ben Cooksley wrote: >> >> >> Otherwise our users will be the ones who will suffer. >> >> > >> >> >

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-25 Thread Ryan Rix
On Mon 25 July 2011 06:53:28 Alvaro Soliverez wrote: > On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 1:36 AM, Martin Gräßlin wrote: > > On Monday 25 July 2011 15:57:16 Ben Cooksley wrote: > >> >> Otherwise our users will be the ones who will suffer. > >> > > >> > I really doubt anyone is going to 'suffer'... This > >>

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings"

2011-07-25 Thread Mark
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Ambroz Bizjak wrote: > Hi Mark, > I've done some small research on what components would have to be > updated for the desktop-specific-names solution. I think that would > be: > > - The Desktop Entry Specification, > http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-s

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-25 Thread Mark
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 6:50 PM, David Jarvie wrote: > On Mon, July 25, 2011 12:50 pm, Ambroz Bizjak wrote: >> Hi Mark, >> have you seen my proposed improvement on your suggestion? >> >> http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=131149560119520&w=2 >> >> I suggest that you consider it, because it w

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings"

2011-07-25 Thread Ambroz Bizjak
Hi Mark, I've done some small research on what components would have to be updated for the desktop-specific-names solution. I think that would be: - The Desktop Entry Specification, http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ - KDE's KDesktopFile, https://projects.kde.org/projects/

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-25 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 25.07.11 17:40, Giovanni Campagna (scampa.giova...@gmail.com) wrote: > > The spec does not provide a list of shared keys, does such a list exist? > > If there is no such list I don't see how we could share anything. > > http://wiki.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/XSettingsRegistry Th

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-25 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
David Jarvie wrote: > On Mon, July 25, 2011 12:50 pm, Ambroz Bizjak wrote: >> Hi Mark, >> have you seen my proposed improvement on your suggestion? >> >> http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=131149560119520&w=2 >> >> I suggest that you consider it, because it would avoid having to >> update the

Re: Review Request: Use platform palette and fonts when running on other desktop environments

2011-07-25 Thread Frank Reininghaus
> On July 2, 2011, 9:49 p.m., Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > hmm. but now things are still done twice in a kde session, no? > > what was wrong with the suggestion to notify qt that it should update > > "stuff"? > > Aurélien Gâteau wrote: > createApplicationPalette() is indeed called twice wh

Re: Review Request: Fix bug : now KDE widges are shown in Qt Designer

2011-07-25 Thread Christoph Feck
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/101804/#review5093 --- Ship it! Please commit, I was wondering why my designer only di

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-25 Thread David Jarvie
On Mon, July 25, 2011 12:50 pm, Ambroz Bizjak wrote: > Hi Mark, > have you seen my proposed improvement on your suggestion? > > http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=131149560119520&w=2 > > I suggest that you consider it, because it would avoid having to > update the Freedesktop specification an

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-25 Thread Mark
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Ambroz Bizjak wrote: > Hi Mark, > have you seen my proposed improvement on your suggestion? > > http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=131149560119520&w=2 > > I suggest that you consider it, because it would avoid having to > update the Freedesktop specification

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-25 Thread Ambroz Bizjak
Hi Mark, Yes, you are right about the X- part. However, I now think that the Freedesktop specification could be extended in a more generic way. I suggest updating the spec such that any (!) non-(-X) key of form (for example) Specific--= is to be interpreted as =Value, in the environment called ,

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-25 Thread Ambroz Bizjak
Hi Mark, have you seen my proposed improvement on your suggestion? http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=131149560119520&w=2 I suggest that you consider it, because it would avoid having to update the Freedesktop specification and any DE that doesn't name its programs differently in other DEs

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-25 Thread Scott Kitterman
Thomas Zander wrote: >On Monday 25 July 2011 07.49.17 Scott Kitterman wrote: >> I haven't seen anything in any mailing list posts that is nearly as >> aggressive as knowningly reusing a name that was in use like >> systemsettings. > >Please don't assume that was an agressive act. > >I can tota

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-25 Thread Giovanni Campagna
Il giorno dom, 24/07/2011 alle 22.17 +0200, Aurélien Gâteau ha scritto: > Le 24/07/2011 17:11, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit : > > GTK+ applications use the XSETTINGS keys: > > > > http://standards.freedesktop.org/xsettings-spec/xsettings-spec-0.5.html > > > > so every key that is shared using that spe

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-25 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
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Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-25 Thread Mark
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 3:00 PM, David Jarvie wrote: > On Mon, July 25, 2011 12:32 pm, Mark wrote: >> Hi Ben, >> >> Could you read and comment on my proposal: >> http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=131142514605051&w=2 >> I would like to implement this in the spec, KDE en Gnome, but i need >>

Review Request: new kded daemon to check .thumbnail directory space usage

2011-07-25 Thread Jaime Torres Amate
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102083/ --- Review request for kdelibs. Summary --- This is not yet complete, it

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-25 Thread David Jarvie
On Mon, July 25, 2011 12:32 pm, Mark wrote: > Hi Ben, > > Could you read and comment on my proposal: > http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=131142514605051&w=2 > I would like to implement this in the spec, KDE en Gnome, but i need > some pointers on where i should make such edits and to get it

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-25 Thread Torsten Rahn
Hi, On Monday, 25. July 2011 02:37:15 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote: > controls settings of the KDE runtime env/platform, is at least also one > who is insular and only cares for himself (or his workspace), no? No. The application author has the freedom to come up with a creative catchy name -

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-25 Thread Nuno Pinheiro
A Segunda, 25 de Julho de 2011 11:56:01 Markus Slopianka você escreveu: > > Which settings don't they follow? Apart from theme (as there is no gtk3 > > engine written in Qt yet) > > Why do theme engines have to be written for Qt in order to let GTK apps at > least integrate visually into a Qt envi

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-25 Thread Mark
2011/7/24 Ben Cooksley : > Dropping GNOME out of this, as it seems quite clear they aren't > interested in co-operating at all. Which is fairly typical for them, > they're insular and only care for themselves. > > In any case, we need a short term solution to this. Basically, we are > going to have

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-25 Thread Markus Slopianka
Am Montag 25 Juli 2011, 02:37:15 schrieb Friedrich W. H. Kossebau: > Sorry, Ben, but someone who names his program with that general term > "System settings" and expects it to have this name in all of the > shells/workspaces (Gnome Shell, Unity, XFCE, Enlightenment, > $WINDOWMANAGER, even in Windo

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-25 Thread Markus Slopianka
> Which settings don't they follow? Apart from theme (as there is no gtk3 > engine written in Qt yet) Why do theme engines have to be written for Qt in order to let GTK apps at least integrate visually into a Qt environment. There should be a Qt theme loader in GTK just as there is a GTK theme

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-25 Thread Andrea Diamantini
On 07/24/2011 09:10 PM, Michael Jansen wrote: I btw. agree that a kde application outside of a kde workspace should be self contained. We could solve that problem btw inside of the kde framework even. As Martin masterfully proved systemsettings is a workspace application and should not be be re

Re: Go Daddy root certificates

2011-07-25 Thread Martin Koller
On Monday, 25. July 2011 02:10:56 Thiago Macieira wrote: > On Sunday, 24 de July de 2011 14:51:34 Gary Greene wrote: > > On Jul 23, 2011, at 10:33 AM, Martin Koller wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > can anyone answer the case https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=277319 , > > > please ? > > Honestly, I

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-25 Thread Andrea Diamantini
On 07/24/2011 05:11 PM, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: applications using the org.freedesktop.Secrets API will ask for the well-known bus name, and get to talk to the daemon implementing it; that means using the gnome-keyring daemon or kwallet, depending on which is installed. the same mechanism of au

Re: Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-25 Thread Alvaro Soliverez
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 1:36 AM, Martin Gräßlin wrote: > On Monday 25 July 2011 15:57:16 Ben Cooksley wrote: >> > >> >> Otherwise our users will be the ones who will suffer. >> > >> > I really doubt anyone is going to 'suffer'... This NamingClashCrisis is >> > more >> >> They will. As an example,

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-25 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Sunday, July 24, 2011 16:05:22 Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > you're saying that anyone using a KDE application should also install > the KDE system settings shell because it is the only way to configure > KDE *applications*? Qt, like GTK+ uses the same XSETTINGS protocol, to > allow interoperability

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-25 Thread Lydia Pintscher
Heya folks :) This whole debate is way too heated and I'd like to take this out of the arena. Are there 2 or 3 people on the GNOME side that are available to talk this through and find a solution? Ideally whoever maintains system settings on the GNOME side would be one of them. I'd like to work wi

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-25 Thread marcel partap
Where's the problem? Have the release tarballs already and irrevocably been forged and fed into some unstoppable mechanism? Per the KDE Release Schedule, we are frozen for everything except build compilation failures, as the KDE 4.7.0 release process is underway. So what is the better option here

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-25 Thread Thomas Zander
On Monday 25 July 2011 07.49.17 Scott Kitterman wrote: > I haven't seen anything in any mailing list posts that is nearly as > aggressive as knowningly reusing a name that was in use like > systemsettings. Please don't assume that was an agressive act. I can totally see that someone that goes wi

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-25 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Sunday, July 24, 2011 05:52:08 PM Cornelius Schumacher wrote: > On Sunday 24 July 2011 Ben Cooksley wrote: > > Dropping GNOME out of this, as it seems quite clear they aren't > > interested in co-operating at all. Which is fairly typical for them, > > they're insular and only care for themselves

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-25 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Sunday, July 24, 2011 05:07:19 PM Ben Cooksley wrote: > Dropping GNOME out of this, as it seems quite clear they aren't > interested in co-operating at all. Which is fairly typical for them, > they're insular and only care for themselves. > > In any case, we need a short term solution to this.

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

2011-07-25 Thread Thomas Zander
On Monday 25 July 2011 06.02.17 Ben Cooksley wrote: > > Sorry, Ben, but someone who names his program with that general term > > "System settings" and expects it to have this name in all of the > > shells/workspaces (Gnome Shell, Unity, XFCE, Enlightenment, > > $WINDOWMANAGER, even in Windows and O